The 3-day Lexington Comic and Toy Convention featured a number of fan-favorite exhibits, including adventurous Stormstroopers greeting attendees at the convention entrance.

The front door at 221B Baker Street, the London address of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, was around the corner from Doug's booth. He checked it out V.I.P. Night; on the weekend, there were long lines to take photos at one of London's most well-known addresses. In fact, more people may know of 221B than 10 Downing Street, the official residence and office of the British Prime Minister.

This Man o' War special edition Harley-Davidson motorcycle had a prime location in the Lexington convention center.

Man o' War won 20 of his 21 career starts during a 16-month stretch and was to horse racing what Babe Ruth was to baseball. The stallion is buried and memorialized with a life-size 3,000-pound bronze statue at the Kentucky Horse Park, located outside Lexington, Kentucky.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Doug is donating this 14 1/2 x 19 1/2 watercolor original to the 3rd Annual Charity Auction at C2E2, April 25-27. All proceeds from the auction - scheduled for Saturday evening, April 26 - go to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

His lovely blond is rendered on Arches of France cold press art board using Dr. Ph. Martin's aniline dyes - the same quality paper and dyes he's used on every Playboy cartoon since September 1964.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

The following photos show Doug finishing work on a new 11 x 17 watercolor original, using Arches of France cold press art board and Dr. Ph. Martin's aniline dyes.

In addition to Playboy pencil and color roughs, limited edition prints and sketchbooks, Doug will also have 10 x 14 and 11 x 17 - like Vampirella - original artwork for sale in Washington, D.C. April 18-20.

In addition to Playboy preliminary pencil and color roughs, limited edition prints and sketchbooks, Doug will have both 10 x 14 and 11 x 17 watercolor originals for sale in Washington, D.C. April 18-20.

These 10 x 14 colorful, "loose"-style originals are rendered on Arches of France 100% cotton, 140 lb watercolor paper using Dr. Ph. Martin's aniline dyes, used for his Playboy originals since his first published cartoon in the September 1964 issue.

With the IRS deadline to file 2013 taxes only a few days away, I thought these 2 Playboy gag rough rejects were appropriate to share.

Since Doug's first full-page color cartoon was published in Playboy - September 1964, he's submitted thousands of cartoon gag roughs to the magazine. Of course, not all can be selected for final art and ultimate publication.

Sunday, April 6, 2014

I thought you might be interested to see Doug start work on a new 11 x 17 watercolor original. He's using Arches of France cold press art board and Dr. Ph. Martin's aniline dyes, which he's used for ALL of his Playboy originals since his first full-page color cartoon was published in the September 1964 issue.

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Bio

Doug has been a cartoonist for Playboy magazine since 1964.
For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-60's, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into cinema: in 1993, he wrote, produced and directed "Black-eyed Susan," an educational movie-drama about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Thirty of his full-page color Playboy cartoons are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969 he moved his family north to Orillia made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. He works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.